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Thursday, January 19, 2012

If a person who has not yet studied their family history/genealogy asked you: "What benefits will I receive by studying my family history or genealogy?" What do you reply?

My reply;

Doing your family history is a great history lesson, an eye opener of the present & past. An understanding of the humanness of things. When I started this journey 40 years ago in 1971 there was no cell phones, no internet, no desktop computers. What an enormous change from today 2012.

When my father was born in 1904 travel was horse & buggy, trains & walking or by boat, no phones, no cars or very very few . When he died in 1997 mankind had been on the moon.
From your perspective you may not be able to comprehend how your great great grand parents lived in the 1800's any more than they could if they were alive now to comprehend how things are in 2012.

Family history has the ability of opening your eyes and heart to survive and grow to a wider understanding of where you came from, how that came about and what is possible should a person decide to go forward to accomplish what you are here on this earth for.

Do not judge the past action of your ancestors by to days views. They do not work that way.

Family history is an awesome journey that has taught me alot about people both present & past and has been a very worthwhile journey.

How would you like your descendants a 100 years from now to remember you by?? This is basically what you desire to know about your ancestry. So write your family history for them in picture & works, leaving your legacy as you see it.. Follow the same pattern for filling in the gaps for your ancestors.

Some of our efforts can be viewed at http://ht.ly/8zso9 Alex W Fraser, The Glengarry Genealogical Society Courtenay, BC 1/18/12

Friday, January 6, 2012

This work now completes the full indexing of the church BMD as I am presently aware off for the period 1779-1914 in 2 volumes. Volume 1 1779-1805, Volume 2 1805 - 1914 . Just tiding up the last aspect of this completion

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About Me Alex Fraser

ALEX W FRASER, or Alex Fraser born County of Glengarry, whose U E L ancestors settled in 1784, attended school, Lancaster, Williamstown, worked for Bell Canada, 1967 got ill at school in Ottawa, Ont. During convalescence 1971, he interested himself in the ancestry of his mother, father, pursued this quest by searching local records, cemeteries, he copied headstone inscriptions leading to the publication of Gravestones of Glengarry V 1 1976, V 2 1978.,V 3 1988, V 4 2008.V5 Kirk Hill, V6 Breadalbane, V7 Lochiel, V8 Glen Nevis 2011, published over 28,000 pages of material on the Glengarry Stormont County Ontario Area.
1992 he received the Canada 125th Anniversary medal, 1997 “The Morley K Thomas Award “ for 30 years of weather observing.
1998 Alex joined NATO/Bitron, started using the excellent product to reduce fuel, maintenance costs, 2006 under Bitron reached the Director, Founder, Presidential level in Bitron, averaging with his 1997 GMC 1/2 truck these 10+ years basically every 3rd tank of gas Free.
Rhoda Ross is a great assistance in collecting, sorting, publishing these works. The MacNaughton’s of Glengarry County Ontario area is her creation in this 4 volume work.